Location List

The festival held on May 1 at the shrine is very famous.

There are some buildings named Kannon, Zen, Kaizan etc. and each has a different atmosphere.

The Hohei-den lecture hall at Hikosan Jingu Shrine has been designated as a National Important Cultural Property. The current building was reconstructed in 1616 by Tadaoki Hosokawa, who was the lor...

A shrine with a long approach.

Very old and deformed stone steps leading to the shrine.

Lanterns are lined on the steps leading to the Konpiragu Shrine on the mountaintop.

A trail going up a mountain path.

There are very steep stone steps on the pathway to the shrine.

A huge ficus superba tree that grows at Nagame Jinja Shrine.

Kengun Shrine is the oldest shrine in Kumamoto City. It is famous for the 1200-meter long approach path that runs from the torii entrance gate on Densha-Dori all the way to the main compound.

Founded in 743, Daitsuji Temple is an ancient temple of the Soto sect. During the late Edo period, local Yakage gardeners spent 21 years to create the chisen-kansho style garden known as Sekiju-en,...

Known as the "mountain temple of flowers," Fumonji Temple is famous for the variety of flowers that bloom from season to season, such as rhododendrons in spring, hydrangeas in early summer, daylili...

Higashi Honganji Betsuin, a temple of the Shinshu Otani-ha, and Nishi Honganji Yokkaichi Betsuin, a templeof the Jodo Shinshu Honganji School, are adjacent to each other. The main hall of the Higas...

A cave that was handmade at the end of the Edo period, depicting heaven and hell.

Ryuganji Temple is a small wooden temple built inside an enormous rock cave. In the inner sanctum of the temple floats a triad of floating wooden Buddhas, said to have been built by Gyoki Priest in...

The area where Takasu Suspension Bridge Park is located is famous for its beautiful landscape, including the Takasu Kannon-do (temple of the goddess of mercy) built against a cliff wall.

Takasu Kannon Onie is a festival held on January 4th. With a history of over 1200 years, the festival, held to pray for good health and rich harvest, has been designated as the city’s Intangible Fo...

Go-O Jinja Shrine, located within the Usa Jingu, is dedicated to Wakenokiyomaro who resolved a national crisis by receiving a divine message from the Hachiman deity when the Buddhist monk Dokyo att...

Kyoshuzuka Tumulus is a tomb said to be the place where the Hachiman deity buried a hundred heads of the Hayato people to memorialize them after suppressing their uprising. It was designated a hist...

The Enma Cave is located in the Fukugonji Temple. There are 16 Rakan (Arhat) statues inside the cave. The Rakanbashi Bridge is a stone bridge over a small pond in front of the cave.

The Mid-autumn Festival (Hojoe Ceremony = release of captive animals) is held at the vermillion-lacquered Wama Shrine Ukiden near the mouth of Yorimogawa River which runs near the Usa Shrine into t...

If you walk a little south on “Otonoshirabedori” in Yokkaichi, Usa City, you will see a steep staircase on your right, and if you go up these 108 steps, you will see Jyuhozan Mahayana. The mummy of...

Otome Shrine is closely related to Usa Jingu.

Usa Jingu Sando is the approach leading to the Usa Jingu.